8. MOSIERA Small, Man. S.E. Fl. 936, 1506, fig. [p. 937]. 1933.
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Stopper [For Charles A. Mosier, 1871–1936, first superintendent of Royal Palm State Park, Florida’s first state park (now Everglades National Park)]
Andrew Salywon
Shrubs or trees, glabrous or pubescent, hairs simple. Leaves usually subopposite or whorled, sometimes decussate; blade venation brochidodromous [hyphodromous]. Inflorescences 1- or 3(–5)-flowered, axillary, often solitary flowers, sometimes dichasia or racemes with 1–3(–5) decussate pairs of flowers. Flowers 4-merous, sessile or pedicellate; hypanthium obconic to campanulate; calyx lobes distinct in bud, usually erect in fruit; petals white; stamens [30–]76–120[–250]; connective usually with 1 terminal oil gland; ovary [1 or]2–4-locular; placentation axile [to parietal], placenta not prominent; ovules [3–]9–40 per locule. Fruits berries, dark purple, red, or black, ellipsoid to globose. Seeds 2–27, subreniform; seed coat smooth or leathery, surface cells isodiametric and not overlapping; embryo whitish, C-shaped, oily; cotyledons linear, reflexed, less than 1/4 length of embryo; hypocotyl as wide as or wider than cotyledons.
Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora): Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Central America (Guatemala).
SELECTED REFERENCE Salywon, A. 2003. A Monograph of Mosiera (Myrtaceae). Ph.D. dissertation. Arizona State University.
